Sean

Sean

My Project

The idea is to investigate how security incidents can increase in severity given some adversary foothold.

I started by doing a systematic literature review on implementations and protocol specifications of Federated Identity Management systems.

Now my focus is in using an abstraction known as attack trees to model security incidents in FIM. The advantages of this approach are that attack trees allow us to realise different ways security incidents can occur and this property allows us to consider complex scenarios with different goals that possibly feed into each other.

Choosing Newcastle University

I did my undergraduate and masters at Newcastle which I really enjoyed, and I feel like I grew significantly as a person. An opportunity to do a PhD I was interested in came up, so I took it.

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